Jul 27, 2026
📰 "Kwestia talentów nowej generacjiObecnie student inżynierii elektronicznej w Europie uczy się głównie na zastrzeżonych narzędziach. Tak właśnie zorganizował zajęcia jego wykładowca. Takie rozwiązania obejmuje umowa licencyjna uczelni, zazwyczaj w ramach zniżki akademickiej wynoszącej 99 procent lub więcej, udzielanej przez jednego z trzech największych dostawców oprogramowania EDA. I oczywiście właśnie tego chcą się uczyć studenci, ponieważ właśnie takich osób poszukują firmy.[...]Noam przedstawia ten wybór z perspektywy studenta: „Jeśli chcesz znaleźć pracę, naucz się korzystać z narzędzi zastrzeżonych”. Rekrutacja w przemyśle zależy od narzędzi wymienionych w CV absolwenta. „Jeśli chcesz założyć start-up, naucz się korzystać z otwartych rozwiązań”. Nowe firmy nie mogą rozpocząć działalności bez uiszczenia opłaty licencyjnej w wysokości miliona euro, zanim jeszcze zbudują prototyp. Są to dwie ścieżki prowadzące do tej samej branży, a druga z nich istnieje wyłącznie dzięki otwartemu ekosystemowi.Jeszcze jeden element układanki, od Luca: Wielu z tych samych profesorów, którzy mogliby włączyć otwarte narzędzia do programu nauczania, jest zainteresowanych utrzymaniem relacji z dostawcami oprogramowania własnościowego. Rabaty w wysokości 99 procent lub więcej zależą od dobrej woli dostawcy, więc profesor, który publicznie opowiada się za otwartymi alternatywami, może mieć trudności przy renegocjacji kolejnego rabatu. Ta dynamika jest trudna do dostrzeżenia spoza środowiska akademickiego, ale niemal na pewno kształtuje to, czego się uczy.Jest to ten sam schemat, który na innym poziomie stosu technologicznego uzależnia europejską administrację publiczną od MS i Amazon Web Services. Nie chodzi o to, że narzędzia zastrzeżone są złe: problemem jest brak prawdziwej alternatywy. Autonomia cyfrowa oznacza dostępność różnych opcji."Całość [EN]:"Przemiany w branży półprzewodników: jak inwestycje publiczne przyczyniły się do rozwoju #OpenSilicon"https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Changing-the-Chip-Industry-How-Public-Investment-Has-Grown-Open-Silicon#elektronika #półprzewodniki #openHardware
Jul 27, 2026
@chlopmarcin Ludzie wstają rano i zaczynają pracę bez wynagrodzenia dla Facebooka. Kończą dopiero, gdy idą spać. Nie odstrasza ich nawet takie ewidencjonowanie bezpłatnych pracowników przez ich "fejsbunia". Tak wygląda technofeudalizm...
Jul 27, 2026
Over the weekend, we launched Path of Exile 1: Curse of the Allflame, and it’s been fantastic to see so many of you plunging in to explore everything the expansion has to offer. As with any major launch, we’ve been closely monitoring your feedback and the game’s performance. We’d like to take a moment to provide an update on how the launch has progressed so far, outline the issues we’ve already addressed, and share what the team is currently focused on resolving. Charts and Voyages We will be deploying balance changes to Charts and Voyages to make them more enticing and rewarding. These changes include: You will no longer need to collect upgrade pieces for Vesper to enable Diviner, Arcanist or Operative strongboxes spawning in Charts and Voyages; they will now appear by default above area level 67. Various lower value objects will no longer be pointed to by Allflame Lantern indicators, such as soothing coral and crab nests. Crab nests will be made far less common. Currency, Scarab, Stacked Deck and Map chests will be made much more common as scattered objects in Charts and Voyages, more so than just the comparative gain in occurrence rate from lowering that of Crab Nests. Golden Lanterns will also grant increased Quantity of items dropped by slain monsters. Dead End and Straight Line charts will be made less common than other types, to make Voyages easier to construct. There will be between 20 and 40% more scattered lootable objects for Lanterns to point to in Charts and Voyages, depending on the specific Charts used. Quantity and Rarity values granted by Chart Modifiers will all be raised by 20-40%. We will be adding a new chest which can appear in Charts and Voyages, Sunken Opulence. This one will be coming in our next restart patch, as it cannot be deployed as part of a hotfix. Ducat crafting will be unlocked much earlier in the meta-progression for Curse of the Allflame, only requiring three upgrades turned into Vesper, rather than five. We will be enabling some missing currencies to be used with Allflame crafting, such as Ancient Orbs and Orbs of Chance. We will be adding the ability to open the Voyage board for your currently ongoing Voyage, to see where you are in the Voyage and what modifiers are affecting it, so you can plan your movement through it accordingly. We’ve also seen requests to allow Charts to be launched directly from the Bathysphere rather than requiring players to speak to Valerie every time. We will be adjusting this so that you can begin a chart from the Bathysphere directly, and only Voyages will require speaking to Val. Finally, we’ve received feedback regarding the Allflame Lantern placement. While manually placing lanterns generally produces good results, automatic placement can occasionally position the lanterns in awkward terrain, making encounters more frustrating than intended. We will be releasing a fix that addresses this issue. Other improvements are ongoing, we will get as much into this patch as possible while also releasing it as quickly as possible to players, so there may be more than is listed here. Abyss Abyss encounters didn’t land in terms of reward, and in some cases combat and density, so there will be iteration coming over the next few days to improve Abysses significantly. Luminary and Mercenaries of Trarthus We’ve seen significant discussion around the new Luminary Ascendancy. Many players feel that permanent Mercenaries aren’t contributing enough power compared to the investment required, particularly when entering higher tier maps for the first time. Due to it being difficult to specialise into a specific Mercenary during the campaign, the less Damage penalty permanent Mercenaries have compared to temporary Mercenaries now tapers in throughout out the game, with no penalty before level 45, with the maximum penalty being reached at level 83. Secondly, we have adjusted the damage scaling of attack damage dealing hired Mercenaries, so they are more effective in the endgame. To help players find more powerful Mercenaries, Infamous Mercenaries now spawn more commonly. This also increases the rewardness of Mercenaries for all players that are dueling Mercenaries in maps. Mercenary skills now more frequently have more support gems in Maps. To aid in obtaining a stronger Mercenary, while you have a weaker one, we have added a new notable to the Atlas Passive Tree that causes all allied Mercenaries to deal more damage to other Mercenaries and Rogue Exiles. We’re also reviewing how Mercenary deaths interact with mapping. Currently, if a Mercenary dies during a map, players can’t simply re-enter to revive them, which can make losing a map feel unnecessarily punishing. Bugs Alongside gameplay feedback, we’re actively working through a number of bugs reported since launch. The following below is not a comprehensive list, but some of the critical issues under investigation: We’re aware of reports of Deadlock crashes and are actively investigating them. We’ll deploy fixes as soon as they’re ready. Caster Mastery opening league mechanic chests without granting the intended buffs. Allflame guidance arrows continue to point towards chests that have already been opened automatically. Chart storage not behaving consistently with the Map Stash Tab. Reports that Mana Infused Staff isn’t interacting correctly with Ignite. Mercenary minimap icons not being removed. Reports of Legion’s breaking out early without all the monsters or chests with reward icons having been tagged. As always, we’re also fixing many other issues as they’re identified. We’ll continue monitoring your feedback, making balance adjustments where appropriate, and releasing hotfixes as soon as they’re ready. Thank you for all of your bug reports, videos, feedback and patience while we continue improving Curse of the Allflame. We’ll have more updates to share soon!
Jul 27, 2026
3.29.0 Hotfix 3 Temporarily disabled Mercenaries spawning in the Toxic Conduit, as the room they spawn with could sometimes cause the area to generate impassible blockages. The magnitude of the action speed debuff applied by drowning in Allflame encounters has been reduced by 33%. Fixed 2 instances crashes.
Jul 27, 2026
3.29.0 Hotfix 2 Fixed a bug with character names in Korean. The escape sequence at the end of a Chart encounter is now longer overall, meaning Allflame lanterns will shrink slower and the player will have more time to escape. Fixed a bug where hardcore Allflame characters that died and were transferred to softcore could no longer access the below deck of The Sovereign. Fixed a bug where hardcore Allflame characters that died and were transferred to softcore could no longer access The Sovereign without returning to the Coast. Fixed an instance crash. This patch was deployed without restarting the servers, you’ll need to restart your client to receive some of these changes.
Jul 27, 2026
3.29.0 Restart fix Fixed a bug which could result in custom stash tab names appearing to contain snippets of unrelated text. Items dropped from chests in Allflame encounters are no longer added to the loot spiral at the end of the encounter and instead drop immediately. Fixed a bug where the Sulphur Purifier could drop from voyages before you had completed the Spirit Flame quest.
Jul 27, 2026
###3.29.0 Hotfix Fixed a UI bug which would cause trade market tabs to appear blank when you open the “Manage Shop” interface for a second time in the same instance. This patch was deployed without restarting the servers, you’ll need to restart your client to patch the client changes.
Jul 27, 2026
December the 25th be with you.
Jul 26, 2026
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "It Is What It Is & It's Not Great" T-shirt. I wish that just once it was what it wasn't. I'm so sick of it being what it is. Why can't it be what it ain't?https://collabs.shop/lfq0d9
Jul 26, 2026
So I learned of a remake of Cholo (BBC Micro game from the 1980s) via @felimwhiteley on @latenightlinux - assuming you grab the 2000s remake Windows app from archive.org, you drop in the files from ovine.net and then tinker around with Wine to stop it from running in a tiny corner of the screen and yep, I am still very bad at this game.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholo_(video_game)
Jul 26, 2026
Wow, it looks so much smaller on TV.
Jul 26, 2026
📺 Dobry odcinek, smutna rozmowa:"#Miniszewski: Jesteśmy w obłędzie | Od rozpadu PiS po Odyseję"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhwlStqGkoInvidious:https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=xVhwlStqGko
Jul 26, 2026
A growing number of police departments are interested in sending a drone to nearly every call for service in their communities. The trend requires heightened public vigilance around use, policy, and data sharing.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/hundreds-drone-first-responder-programs-could-soon-be-launched-across-country
Jul 26, 2026
It's a very important day to some people.
Jul 26, 2026
Join the EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at DEF CON 34 with special guests Cindy Cohn, Jennifer Granick, Kurt Opsahl, and more! Now’s your chance to knock out celebrity lawyers—all while supporting digital freedom ♦️♣️♥️♠️ https://eff.org/poker
Jul 26, 2026
The KIDS Act is not just some benign form of digital “carding.” If passed, the bouncer at the door is an online entity capturing and storing personal data from users who simply want to access legal, First Amendment-protected content on the internet, EFF’s India McKinney wrote for @CoinDesk. https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2026/07/23/the-kids-act-is-way-worse-than-digital-carding-it-is-a-mass-surveillance-system
Jul 26, 2026
Please watch your step.
Jul 26, 2026
I love Bernie.
Jul 26, 2026
We had a nice @hackwimbledon meetup today, and helped a younger tech enthusiast to get Linux Mint installed on an older laptop - he was very excited!